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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-11 10:29 AM
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Someone noticed the bio on Wikipedia for Rush Limbaugh's ex-girlfriend looked like an advertisement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryn_Kagan

Daryn Kagan

Daryn A. Kagan (born January 26, 1963) is creator and host of the award-winning DarynKagan.com, a media company specializing in inspirational and motivational news content. Martha Stewart's Body + Soul magazine calls Kagan the "Good News Guru", and her brand of inspiring news stories and newspaper columns are available across numerous platforms.

From 1994 to 2006, Kagan served as a CNN main anchor and correspondent based in CNN's world headquarters of Atlanta, Georgia. For eight years Kagan served as the network's mid-morning news anchor of CNN Live Today shown from 10am-12pm Eastern Time. She also served as host of the CNN/People magazine news entertainment program, People in the News, and earlier served as a CNN sports reporter and anchor. Kagan has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a "CNN mainstay."

A 2008 New York Times profile of Kagan that discussed her career reinvention as well as the launch of DarynKagan.com, offered, "Ms. Kagan had a few things in her favor . . . plenty of skills after 12 years at one of the world's best news organizations.

In September 2004, Kagan became romantically involved with radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, but they broke up in February 2006.

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Here is what one of the Wikipedia administrators added to the page:

This article is written like an advertisement. Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view. For blatant advertising that would require a fundamental rewrite to become encyclopedic, use {{db-spam}} to mark for speedy deletion. (May 2011)
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-11 11:02 AM
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1. It's obvious what's going on here.
She owns a media company and they wrote her Wikipedia entry.

The page has been edited numerous times by KeepingItAccurate. KeepingItAccurate seems to have only edited the Kagan article or mentions of Kagan in other articles.

It's not difficult to conclude that KeepingItAccurate is an employee or employees of Kagan's media company.

I'm not sure what Wikipedia's rules are regarding paid advertising, but if there are rules against it (and it makes sense that there would be), and if this was written by a paid employee of a media company, then it may be in violation.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-11 11:06 AM
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2. It's clear this was a marketing effort.



But it would seem like Kagan doesn't need the money. I'd imagine OxyRush
pays her a bundle to keep his deep dark secrets out of the public's view.


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